Curtain-pole.



PATENTBD MAY 5, 190a. J. KRODER.

GURTAINPOLEL- APPLICATION FILED JULY 26, I907 INVENTOH WITNESSESJfenJIfrocZer ATTORNEYS- ru: nomus PETERS ca., wAsuma'mn, p. c.

JOHN KRODER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CURTAIN-POLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1908.

Application filed July 26, 1907. Serial No. 385,603.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KRODER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Curtain-Pole, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description.

The invention relates to curtain poles such as shown and described inthe Letters Patent of the United States, No. 761,508, granted to me onMay 31, 1904.

The object of the present invention is to provide a new and improvedcurtain pole, arranged to permit of conveniently engaging the knob withthe end of the tubular pole,

and in the case of telescoping tubular poles to allow of readilyengaging one pole section with the other.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and thenpointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothViews.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of the improvement, partsbeing shown in elevation, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a part ofthe split tubular pole.

In curtain poles, such, for instance, as shown and described in theLetters Patent of the United States above referred to, considerabledifliculty is experienced in placing the knobs in position on the outerends of the split tubular pole, owing to undue opening up of the sp itend of the tube and the squarely out oii terminal of the tube. In a likemanner and for a like reason, it is difiicult in sectional telescopingtubes to insert the squarely cut off end of the smaller section in thesquarely out off end of the larger section. In order to overcome thisdifficulty and to permit of readily and conveniently assembling theparts, the following arrangement is provided:

As illustrated in Fig. 1, the curtain pole comprises the tube A and theknobs'B and B, of which the knob B is in osition on one end of the tubeA, and the ot 1er knob B is shown removed from the other end of the tubeA. Each of the knobs B and B is preferably of the construction morefully shown and described in the Letters Patent of the United Statesabove referred to, so that further detailed description of the same isnot deemed necessary, it being sufficient to state that each knob B andB consists of a shell B and a split disk B held within the shell B thelatter and the split disk B having bearings B B for the reception of thecorre sponding end of the tube A, to clanipingly hold the knobs B and Bin position on the tube A.

The tube A is made in telescoping sections A, A and each section isrovided with a longitudinally extending s it A having its side wallsbeveled outwardly at each end of the tube section, so that the splitgradually widens at each end of the tube section, thus producing a bevelA at each end of the tube section. Now when placing a knob B or B inposition on the corresponding end of the tube A, it is evident thatowing to the bevel A the bearing B or B readily engages the end of thetube even if the latter has opened up in excess of the opening of thebearing B or B as the walls of the bearing in coming in contact with thecorresponding end of the tube A draw the ends gradually together owingto the bevel A so that the bearing readily passes onto the end of thetube. In a like manner when the section A is to be inserted into thesection A the bevels A permit gradual closing of the ends of thesections, so as to allow the section A to conveniently slip into thesection A.

As the tube A as well as the knobs B and B is made of resilientmaterial, it is evident that the beveled ends of the tube A firmlyengage the bearings B B to securely hold the knobs in place byfrictional contact of the parts referred to.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A curtain pole comprising a plurality of split tubes, telescopingwith each other, and knobs having openings for receiving the free endsof the tubes, the inner ends of the inner section and the outer ends ofboth sections being beveled, the bevel commencing at the split.

2. A curtain pole comprising a tube, and a knob for the end thereof, theknob having a name to this specification in the presence of llllllblfOrthe receptioln of tlile end of the tube, two subscribing Witnesses. t eatter being ma( e in te esco ing sections, and each section being splitin the direction JOHN KRODER' 5 of its length, the split Widening ateach end Witnesses:

of a section. THEo. G. HOsTER,

In testimony whereof I have signed my EVERARD B. MARSHALL.

